[PD] Changing the defaul language in 0.43

Òscar Martínez Carmona xamps23 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 16:08:35 CET 2013


Sorry, you've just answered that! Thanx!

El divendres 15 de febrer de 2013, Òscar Martínez Carmona ha escrit:

> How do I switch it back to English?
> I appreciate the spanish version but English looks much cooler!
>
> El divendres 15 de febrer de 2013, Hans-Christoph Steiner ha escrit:
>
>>
>> Pd-extended should use the same language that the user is using.  If not,
>> its
>> a bug.  Pd-extended on Mac OS X looks at what language the Dock is
>> configured
>> in and uses that.  Apparently, this is not reliable, since I guess people
>> buy
>> systems in one language, then use them in another, and the Dock doesn't
>> seem
>> to respect that change.  You can check the language of your Dock and your
>> global locale by running this in the Terminal:
>>
>> defaults read com.apple.dock loc
>> defaults read NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale
>>
>> The easiest fix it to probably set the language of the Dock like this:
>>
>> defaults write com.apple.dock loc en_US
>>
>> I have no idea why its failing on Windows, maybe for a similar reason.
>>  As far
>> as I could tell, Pd-extended uses the 'proper' registry value:
>>
>> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International
>>
>> Could you send the value of that registry key on machines that fail to
>> respect
>> the user setting?
>>
>> .hc
>>
>> On 02/15/2013 01:03 AM, rene beekman wrote:
>> > How do I set / change the default language on both Windoze and Mac for
>> 0.43
>> > ?
>> > I don't have a Windoze machine myself, so can't test there, but the
>> readme
>> > for the Mac version does not say anything about it. There also seems to
>> be
>> > no setting in the preference file for this (or at least none that I
>> could
>> > find).
>> >
>> > I searched the list-archives and the "best" instruction I found was to
>> > delete all .msg files inside /po, which seems a bit crude to me.
>> > Is there a more elegant way to do this?
>> >
>> > I understand from an older discussion that the assumption was that
>> > "non-technical" people were assumed to want to use Pd in their native
>> > language. I did installs this week on about a dozen machines
>> > and apparently they all belonged to "non-technical" people, even though
>> > every single one of them runs all software on their machine in English
>> > only... Wouldn't it be wiser to assume that whatever the language is
>> that
>> > the OS is running in, is also the language that people really want to
>> use
>> > their software in?
>> > Just my two cents.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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